CAMPONOTUS. 



375 



441. Camponotus confucii, Forel, Jour. Bomb. 'N. H. Soc. viii (1894), 

 p. 396, $ . 



maj. Black, opaque ; flagellum of the antennae brown, man- 

 dibles and legs castaneous. Head rather rectangular in shape, a 

 .little broader posteriorly than in front, the sides straight, very 

 slightly convex ; mandibles with 6 teeth ; the clypeus depressed, 

 slightly carinate, the median lobe rounded in front, only slightly 

 produced, notched in the middle. Thorax short and broad, dis- 

 tinctly but not deeply emarginate at the meso-metanotal suture, 

 the metanotum raised, rounded, gibbous ; legs short, the tibiae 

 cylindrical. Node of the pedicel rather thick, convex in front, 

 transverse and slightly emarginate above, flat posteriorly ; abdomen 

 broadly oval. 



min. Similar, smaller, but proportionately not more slender ; 

 head similar, but the occiput rounded. 



Length, $ maj. 7 ; min. 5-5'5 mm. 



Hob. Western India, Kanara ( Wroughton) ; Upper Burma, 

 Katha ; Tenasserim, Thaungyin Valley (Binghani). Some speci- 

 mens of the $ minor have the abdomen dark castaneous red. 



442. Camponotus wasmanni, Emery, Rev. Suisse Zool. i (1893), 

 p. 224, $ ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. ix (1895), p. 453, $ ? . 



maj. Black, more or less thickly covered with erect hoary 

 white pubescence ; mandibles bright castaneous red ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen closely finely reticulate 

 punctate, with a superficial sculpturing 

 of large scattered punctures. Head 

 very broadly triangular, almost as broad 

 at the occipital angles as long ; clypeus 

 with a prominent vertical carina and 

 only a very shortly produced median 

 lobe. Thorax short and broad, lateral 

 angles of the prothorax subdentate, 

 a distinct but narrow emargination 

 at the meso-metanotal suture ; legs 

 longish, rather slight, tibino only very 

 slightly compressed. Node of pedicel 

 roundly conical, knob-like, not much 

 raised ; abdomen broadly oval, slightly 

 depressed. 



min. Similar, much smaller, with 

 proportionately much smaller head ; 

 thorax broadly articulated to the head, 

 the lateral anterior angles distinctly 

 dentate, the anterior margin of pro- 

 thorax transverse, as wide as the head ; 

 metanotum more distinctly raised and gibbous than in the 

 $ maj. 



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Fig. 120. Camponotn* 

 wasmanni, maj. 



